Hey, trolls: Woman will wear a bikini if she wants, thank you

None of your beeswax, trolls.
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Chloe Bryan
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Sara Petty will wear whatever she wants -- trolls be damned.

The 20-year-old Bowling Green State University student was dismayed to notice several tweets shaming women over 200 pounds for wearing certain clothing items -- including bikinis.


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"I'm sorry but if you're over 200 pounds you shouldn't be wearing a crop top..." one post read.

So Petty decided to fight back. In a series of four photos, she dons outfits that Twitter trolls have deemed "inappropriate" for women of her size -- and she rocks them, of course.

While most people assume that trolls are male, some of the body-shaming comments Petty read were from other women. "I hope women realize how important it is to stop tearing each other down and uplift each other," she told the Huffington Post.

In the meantime, she'll keep up her impeccable fashion game.

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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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